Most chocolate comes from cacao plants brought from Central America to Ghana and the Ivory Coast
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Wild chocolate
by Rowan Jacobs (Bloomsbury Publishers)
I thought I knew the basics about the chocolate industry. Most come from hundreds of thousands of small cocoa farms in Ghana and Ivory Coast. Many of these use child labor, a truth that is well hidden in the excellent baked goods we’re seeing a lot of this January.
Rowan Jacobsen’s new book Wild Chocolate: In Search of the Soul of Cacao Across the Americas does not tell this story in detail. Instead, Jacobsen, a science writer, makes a tighter story…
